According to the paper, Eleanor Witt Turner, 87, died first on Friday while in hospice care followed nine hours later by her husband, Frank Eugene Turner, also 87, who was at a separate facility. The couple's daughter, Linda Purser, said her father died before she told him about her mother's passing.

Both suffered from dementia and both had recently suffered a stroke.

“They thought alike; they both wanted the same things out of life,” Purser told the paper. “They were the same. And they were lost without each other.”

The couple, who married when they were both 22, would have celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on Dec. 24.